B&W2 is quite a different game to the original, though based on a similar premise. The interface has been significantly enhanced to make everything easier and faster to do. I also found the gameplay to be much more fun in that the game doubles as a RTS and a city-building game. The RTS side of things is not perfect, but there is great satisfaction to be had be seeing your creature smash an army to smithereens, or picking up a massive boulder and rolling it through their ranks.